Re: How to COMPLETELY uninstall 8.0.5 on NT 4.0?

In article <8p6g05$l8v$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   Eoin Gardiner <eoin7_at_my-deja.com> wrote:
> To create a clean machine in NT requires that you take out the
> sledgehammer. Here are steps that Oracle provided me with:
>
> 1. Delete the database and NT service
> 2. Uninstall everything you can with the Oracle Installer
> 3. Delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE
> 4. Delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC
> 5. Remove all keys under
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services that begin
> with 'Oracle'
> 6. Remove all keys under
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Eventlog\Application
> that begin with 'Oracle'
> 7. Remove the %ORACLE_HOME% path and JRE path from Control panel -
> System - Environment
> 8. Reboot your machine
> 9. Delete your Oracle directories
> 10. Delete C:\Program Files\Oracle
> 11. Delete icons
>
> What could be simpler?
> hth
> Eoin
>
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Careful, there.  Deleting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC will nuke
more than just Oracle.  If you have anyother ODBC drivers or DSN's that
point to non-Oracle databases, you'll loose them as well.

Ed Stevens
(Opinions are not necessarily those of my employer)


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